Book Journal WR: History's Mysteries: People, Places, and Oddities Lost in the Sands of Time

You'll see a lot of Book Journal WRs of this nature and to be fair, they're all really starting to blend in to me as well. For instance I don't remember much about this except it provided some rather in-depth and less speculative chapters on a select number of stories that stand out amongst a timeline we are familiar with. I read through it quickly and marked a couple of interesting notes.

History's Mysteries: People, Places, and Oddities Lost in the Sands of Time by Brian Haughton
Continuing my foray into esoteric and speculative history, I chose first to read this book (and subsequently took to Amazon.com to purchase a slew of other history (both real and speculative) after finishing it) and found it pretty decent. As with interest in this kind of genre, a lot of it is speculative, but Haughton is perhaps more satiating in his writing: he offers several explanations, many of which are very grounded in certain historical aspects, and doesn't linger on the esoteric nature of these kinds of topics. And also with books like these, it isn't necessary to read through the whole thing; selecting chapters that interest you will certainly give you a decent, 200-level introduction into the topic (I particularly found his chapter on Lyonesse interesting), but because it covers a few topics, people particularly interested in one specific notion should look elsewhere for a more in-depth study.

7/10

I need to find this book. It's with Song of Roland somewhere...